Roberto Lugo, DNA Study Revisited, 2022, urethane resin life cast, foam, wire, and acrylic paint, 66 × 27 × 17 in. (167.6 × 68.6 × 43.2 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Catherine Walden Myer Fund, 2024.19
Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute bird keeper Wesley Bailey (center) presented molted kiwi feathers to New Zealand Ambassador to the United States Rosemary Banks (left) for repatriation. Credit: New Zealand Embassy.
“The Grim Work of Death” by Christopher Myers. Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Copyright Christopher Myers.
A large Hyperwall—a giant video screen used to display NASA’s Earth Information Center data—will be the centerpiece of “NASA’s Earth Information Center at the National Museum of Natural History.” James Di Loreto, Smithsonian.
“NASA’s Earth Information Center at the National Museum of Natural History” Showcases Larger-than-Life Screen Pairing Real-Time Graphics with Short Feature Videos to Visualize Interconnected Changes on the Planet
This fossil palm leaf (Sabalites sp.), discovered in Petersburg Borough, Alaska, is on display in “The David H. Koch Hall of Fossils—Deep Time” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. University of Alaska Museum Earth Sciences Collection 35034.
Male giant panda Bao Li in his habitat at Shenshuping Base in Wolong, China, May 16. Roshan Patel, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.
Amy Sherald, “What’s precious inside of him does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence (All American),” 2017; private collection, Chicago; Copyright Amy Sherald; photo: Joseph Hyde, courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
The first class of women Air Force pilots, UPT Class 77-08, L-R: Capt. Susan D. Rogers, 1st Lt. Victoria K. Crawford, Capt. Christine E. Schott, Capt. Kathy LaSauce, Capt. Connie J. Engel, 2nd Lt. Carol A. Scherer, 1st Lt. Sandra M. Scott, 2nd Lt. Mary M. Livingston, 2nd Lt. Kathleen Rambo, Capt. Mary E. Donahue.
Musical performers synchronously holding their instruments in the air at the museum’s 2023 Chuseok festival. Credit: National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Solar wind flowing from the Sun measured by Parker Solar Probe near the edge of the corona and later with Solar Orbiter at a larger distance during a spacecraft alignment. The solar wind contains magnetic switchbacks, or large amplitude magnetic waves, near Parker Solar Probe that disappear farther from the Sun where Solar Orbiter is located. Credits: Image background: NASA Goddard/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez, Spacecraft images: NASA/ESA
